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2 March 2021

vCenter Alarms export/import revisited and fixed

UPDATE 2 Feb 2022: Unfortunately, due to changes in vCenter 7.0U2 and U3 the below procedure does not work flawlessly anymore. Thanks to my colleague/customer Willem for noticing this and providing the details! So, what changed in the latest version of vSphere 7? New alarms with special characters > fixed with a function to filter them Description field to long...

PowerCLi/vCenter Comments: 5

31 January 2021

Cumulative Security Update for vRA 7.6

Updated March 9th 2021;March 2021 Platform Security Update, Februari vRA7.6 Hotfix 20. Recently I received a customer question about the installation of a vRA 7.6 Security update. The question was related to the Cumulative Security Update for vRealize Automation 7.6, which is mentioned in VMware KB80044; https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80044 To be honest I was not even aware of the existence of these...

Automation/Uncategorized/vRA Comment: 1

24 December 2020

Workspace ONE Access ‘Mind Map’

While attending the very valuable VMware Access Bootcamp training I got overwhelmed by all moving parts that are to be explored in this great product. During the course, of which most video content is available on VMware’s TechZone, you will experience a tsunami of information. I found it hard to remember which feature is to be found where and what...

Access/Horizon/VIDM/Workspace ONE Comments: 0

1 December 2020

Upgrade to VMware Identity Manager (VIDM) 3.3.3 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager (vRSLCM)

VMware released VMware Identity Manager (VIDM) 3.3.3 on the 13th of November (yes.. on a friday for superstitious ;)). Note that newer versions of this product are renamed to Workspace One Access. In the VMware Validated Design (VVD) Documentation, VIDM is often referred to as Workspace One Access. This article describes the upgrade of a single VIDM, non-clustered deployment to...

Access/VIDM/vRSLCM/Workspace ONE Comment: 1

30 November 2020

Horizon 7.13 “ESB” release

As a follow-up on my previous post I have good news for the customers that need to stay on Horizon 7 release, most probably due to the support for the older Windows 8.1 Operating System. Recently (Oct 15, 2020) Horizon 7.13 reached GA and VMware decided to consider this as an unofficial Extended Service Branch release meaning VMware is committed...

Horizon Comments: 0

26 July 2020

How to setup an SSH keypair for use with vRealize Automation 8 Blueprints

Introduction I have started my career mainly working with Windows as Guest Operating system, but during the years I’ve been using Linux (mainly Red Hat and CentOS and lately Ubuntu) more and more. I am by far a specialist, but I know enough to do the basic setup, install an application, and do some simple configuration stuff. What I like...

Linux/vRA Comments: 0

15 July 2020

Change vCenter Identity Source from IWA to LDAPS

Introduction Update 15/11/2021 VMware has just released [VMSA-2021-0025] describing an IWA privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-22048). There will probably be a patch, but the workaround is to use AD over LDAPS authentication or Identity Provider Federation for ADFS if you are on vSphere 7.x. So if you didn’t have time to switch to one of these methodes, now is the time...

vCenter/vSphere Comments: 6

13 July 2020

Upgrade to vROPS 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 8.1.1. This is a maintenance release which resolves a few important security and functionality issues identified in the product. The release notes can be found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/8.1.1/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-811.html Just like with the vRLI 8.1.1 release, you need to update vRSLCM with a Product Support Pack, which is 8.1.0.2 in this case. You may have received a...

vROPS/vRSLCM

28 June 2020

Configure Compliance Monitoring with vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS)

Introduction Many organizations have the requirement to comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations. The fastest way to set this up for your vSphere environment is to use PowerCLI scripts. Configuring these settings is only part of the solution; after that you will have to monitor and report on Compliance. This is where vROPS comes to the rescue! The option...

vROPS/vSphere Comments: 2

17 June 2020

PaaS Capabilities and how VMware Tanzu fits in

VMware is on a mission when it comes to supporting Modern [Cloud Native] Applications. This journey started many years ago and was aimed to support existing customers to Run, Build and Manage all their applications on their existing platform (the VMware Software Defined Datacenter as we call it). VMware also has an healthy urge to deliver customers the best solutions...

CNA/tanzu/TAS/TKG/TKGI/vSphere Comments: 0